The East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club will meet Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 at 7:30 a.m. in The Cooper River Room at the Mount Pleasant Waterfront Park. We are pleased to have Billie Attaway, President of Read Aloud Technologies, as our speaker. Breakfast catered by Dish and Design Catering and Events.
Billie is a recovering entrepreneur having built and sold several businesses. He is also a business coach, friend, father, athlete, life time learner and a man of great faith.
His major purpose is to help and save children. He focuses on and supports childrens issues through: United Way, Victory Junction Gang camp, Camp Sertoma, Seacoast Church, his own non profit One by one and others.
The past focus of the non-profit was preventing child abandonment and the current focus is education, reading and literacy, improving both in SC, the US and the world.
He currently helps lead or advises three companies:
Read Aloud Tech an Ed.Tcch firm.
MMRR a software firm helping Associations and Chambers manage, recruit and retain their members, and
Yellow Card a Fin Tech company providing international money transfers using Bitcoin as the underlying currency.
He also coaches twelve CEO’s in diverse industries between $1mm and $100mm.
He has won the Entrepreneur of the Year award and placing on the Inc. 500 (Fastest growing privately held companies) twice. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization and a past Rotarian.
Today he is going to talk with us on the problems, inefficiencies in our current education system and some possible solutions to reading and literacy.